RedSeven Amplification AMP CENTRAL, Manual

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INTRODUCTION
What is the AMP CENTRAL?
The Amp Central is our answer for the modern guitarists who still love their tube based
amplifiers, in every situation, even where low volumes are not allowed.
Amp Central, as the name suggested is a hub for connecting your amplifier to the outside
world, without the need of a real cabinet and at any volume.
THE CONCEPT
Since a few years, digital systems became very popular in the guitar amplifier market, replacing
a real amp in most of the “inconvenient” gig where a proper stage volume was not possible or
for example, during exercise sessions late at night.
What is missing here is what we call the “total experience” of a real amp-speaker interaction,
and we do think this combo is still unsurpassed in terms of the feeling under player’s finger, but
at the same time we realize that needs are constantly moving and music is always evolving.
What could we do to improve the experience of a “fake” or profiled amplifier, played with
headphones, which in most cases yields bad results?
Well, we thought of a solution and we brought a couple of different technologies into the game,
one very old and one not so old, respectively called
Dummy Load (in our case a Reactive Load)
and the Impulse Response technology.
It’s a known fact your tube based amplifier needs to have a cabinet wired to the output jack
when used, or at least a proper load, the potential penalty could be the reduction of the life of
its output transformer.
With this in mind we built the very first stage of the Amp Central, by creating a proper Dummy
Load, or better, a Reactive/Resistive Load, to mimic at the closest possible approximation of a
real cabinet. We've gone fully analog with the best components available in the real world,
something that audiophile experts will appreciate. No digital processing or equalization is
applied there, since we do believe your amplifier needs a proper analog load to sound and feel
at its best.
And where do we go from there? The amp is now safe and running, while no sound will come
out of it. Well, at this point we decided to embrace digital world, with Impulse Responses*.
Basically, with Amp Central we wanted to offer the best of both worlds, offering you the
possibility of playing your favorites amplifiers and not their simulations, with some Impulse
Response
of your favorite cabinets.
This will be YOUR and not someone else's sound. So your own amp(s) and possibly your own
cab’s I.R.(s).